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Alex Katz
Alex Katz
Riitta Valorinta
Éric de Chassey
Sara Hildénin taidemuseo
其他書名
an American way of seeing
出版
Kerber
, 2009
主題
Art / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
Art / American / General
Art / Individual Artists / General
Art / Individual Artists / Monographs
Art / Sculpture & Installation
Art / Prints
ISBN
3866782632
9783866782631
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=PRtcPgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Alex Katz has been viewed as one of the most important figurative painters in America for more than 50 years and has been a significant influence on a great number of younger painters from all over the world. Through his direct images and simple, everyday motifs that are reduced to the essential, but with a monumental format, he has become a chronicler of modern life in the second half of the 20th century. Even though the paintings with their bold, powerful colours contain many potential symbols, they do not tell any stories. Both representational and abstract, focusing more on the surface than on great depth, the works of Katz resemble film stills: the moments before and after are left to the imagination of the observer. This catalogue is a collection of around 40 paintings from the period between 1959 and 2008. Published on the occasion of the exhibition Alex Katz: An American Way of Seeing, October 2009 - February 2010, at Museum Kurhaus Kleve as well as before in Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere/Finnland, and the Musée de Grenoble, France.